Economic Growth vs. A Liveable Planet: Which Side Are You On? by Ian SinclairMorning Star29 October 2022 “There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle to be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.” My main takeaway from Tony Benn’s wise words is […]
People comparing the crisis engulfing Britain to the 1970s are doing the decade a disservice. It wasn't all industrial strife and power cuts. It also included Led Zeppelin, Robin Day and The Sweeney.
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It was the Blair and Bush, not Saddam Hussein, who lied about Iraq’s WMDsby Ian SinclairMorning Star21 December 2020 As the famous quote – commonly attributed to US writer Mark Twain – goes: “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes”. It shouldn’t be surprising, then, […]
Joe Biden: The Guardian gets fooled againBy Ian SinclairMorning Star30 November 2020 “Meet the new boss/Same as the old boss”, sings Roger Daltrey at the end of Won’t Get Fooled Again, one of The Who’s greatest songs. In fact it’s one of the greatest anthems in the rock canon full stop, reaching the top ten […]
Radical action now is the only sensible option
by Ian Sinclair
Morning Star
8 February 2018
"The game is rigged." Doesn't sound much like a "market" to me. And "capitalism" isn't the word you're looking for either.by Gaius Publius(This is part one of several pieces on what Bernie Sanders can accomplish if elected president. At the end I offer an example of a Sanders-like "What I will never do" speech.
Margaret Thatcher, drinking your milkshake (source)by Gaius PubliusI had a different piece set up for the next few days, revolving around a recent interview by Noam Chomsky (which Howie wrote about here) that touches on our so-called "capitalism" and also on the Bernie Sanders candidacy.
Long before the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment campaign inched slowly from the fringes of global solidarity with Palestinians to take center stage, Tony Benn had been advocating a boycott of Israel with unrestricted conviction, for years.
As a young socialist in Brooklyn and Long Island, I looked around for role models and heroes. The Democratic Party weren't offering but across the Atlantic, England had Tony Benn. He died today, age 88, at his home in London. Born into the aristocracy, Benn-- formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate-- renounced his titles, the first peer to ever do so, and served in the House of Commons for 50 years and was a Cabinet Minister under two Labor Prime Ministers, Harold Wilson and James Callaghan.
